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Tooth Fairy

Generally unfavorable reviews
Based on 24 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 13 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Comedy | Fantasy
Written by:
Lowell Ganz
Babaloo Mandel
Joshua Sternin, Jeffrey Ventimilia
Randi Mayem Singer
Directed by: Michael Lembeck
Release Date:
Theatrical: January 22, 2010
Running Time: 102 minutes, Color
Origin: USA | Canada
Summary
RATING: PG for mild language, some rude humor and sports action
Starring Dwayne Johnson, Ashley Judd, Julie Andrews, Stephen Merchant, and Ryan Sheckler
Derek Thompson is a hard-charging hockey player whose nickname comes from his habit of separating opposing players from their bicuspids. When Derek discourages a youngster's dreams, he's sentenced to one week's hard labor as a real tooth fairy, complete with the requisite tutu, wings and magic wand. At first, Derek "can't handle the tooth" - bumbling and stumbling as he tries to furtively wing his way through strangers' homes...doing what tooth fairies do. But as Derek slowly adapts to his new position, he begins to rediscover his own forgotten dreams. (20th Century Fox)
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Washington Post Michael O'Sullivan
Tooth Fairy is cute. Which is to say that Dwayne Johnson is cute. How could anybody with the body of Arnold Schwarzenegger (circa 1984) and the smile of Cameron Diaz not be, especially when dressed -- albeit briefly -- in a pink tutu?
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Ethan Alter
Dwayne Johnson's energetic performance enlivens an otherwise by-the-numbers family comedy.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Missy Schwartz
British comic Stephen Merchant (Extras), exudes an easier charm as a goofy fairyland caseworker who harbors big dreams of his own.
Read Full Review >St. Louis Post-Dispatch Calvin Wilson
The comedy is so lame that the whole enterprise comes across as depressing.
Read Full Review >Arizona Republic Bill Goodykoontz
Focus. Tooth Fairy isn't as bad as you may have feared. It's not all that good, either, but at least it's possible to sit through it and hold down your popcorn.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
There's no way I can recommend this movie to anyone much beyond the Tooth Fairy Believement Age, but I must testify it's pleasant and inoffensive, although the violence in the hockey games seems out of place.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Stephen Cole
Sorry to disappoint anyone who saw the cast list of this film and presumed Julie Andrews was going to play the horrific serial killer Tooth Fairy from the Hannibal Lecter movies.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Amy Biancolli
Tooth Fairy would be substantially less likable without Johnson's native-born flair for self-abasement.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Tasha Robinson
For a bad, broad comedy, Tooth Fairy boasts a surprising number of positives. Which isn’t to say that it’s good, but it could be much, much worse.
Read Full Review >Boxoffice Magazine Pete Hammond
Strictly for 6 year olds, this uninspired, one-joke comedy is full of too many misfired gags and weak comic setups to cross over to anyone whose head reaches above the seat back.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
Tooth Fairy's script -- which was written by five people -- is lousy, and the direction, by Michael Lembeck, is weak.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Stephen Holden
Watching the first half-hour of Tooth Fairy is like reaching into a grab bag of novelties, as the movie unveils its tricks... After that, the wit more or less evaporates, replaced by bloated sentimentality and clumsy plot exposition.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Tim Grierson
Johnson seems perfectly happy coasting through bland mediocrities. It used to be that his former career as a wrestler was his biggest obstacle to becoming a Hollywood star--now, it appears to be laziness.
Read Full Review >USA Today Claudia Puig
Tooth Fairy will make your teeth ache and your skin crawl.
Read Full Review >Orlando Sentinel Roger Moore
That Disney touch (which even Disney has trouble replicating) is missing. Even the hockey is unconvincing.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips
The poster’s the funniest thing about the project: Johnson, sporting a pair of fairy wings larger than his forearms, glaring at the camera.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey
Michael Lembeck directs with the subtlety of a sledgehammer, pounding every joke and cliche until they are flat, flat, flat.
Read Full Review >Slate Josh Levin
In the hierarchy of things that creep into your house, the tooth fairy ranks somewhere beneath Santa Claus and above the Formosan termite.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Kimberley Jones
How many screenwriters does it take to screw in this dim bulb? Five – no joke – and another one credited with “story by.”
Read Full Review >New York Post Lou Lumenick
Charmless and underdeveloped knockoff of "The Santa Clause."
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Wesley Morris
For what it’s worth, Tooth Fairy is a somehow dimmer cousin of those Tim Allen “Santa Clause’’ movies.
Read Full Review >NPR Scott Tobias
The only apparent reason Tooth Fairy exists at all is to squeeze tough-guy ex-wrestler Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson into tights and a tutu. As comic ideas go, that doesn't stretch much further than the poster.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 3.4 (out of 10) based on 13 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
William B. gave it an8:
A fun movie, full of humor and pathos.
Rusty S gave it an8:
Finally, a role perfect for The Rock!
Chad S. gave it a5:
With Santa Claus, there's territorial boundaries involved, which preclude the appearance of any potential transgression between the tooth fairy and his client. For starters, Santa is situated in the living room, where he eats the cookies and drinks the milk, then climbs back up the chimney. It's the children who do the spying, not the other way around. Santa doesn't enter bedrooms, unlike the tooth faeries, male(!) tooth faeries, that Lily(Julie Andrews) recruits into her guild: grown men in effeminate ballerina outfits who reach under children's pillows and leave behind a dollar bill, hopefully, for just the tooth. Whereas no background search appears to be needed for Derek(Dwayne Johnson), a journeyman hockey player doing time for a second-rate minor league hockey team(shades of "Bull Durham), Ziggy(Seth McFarland), on the other hand, a colleague who sells Derek black market tooth faerie paraphernalia, seems decidedly less clean-cut, hardly the sort of man any parent would want hovering above their unconscious child. In "Tooth Fairy", a sort of "Men in Baby Blue"(it borrows liberally from the Will Smith vehicle), parents apparently aren't the purveyors of magic, the ones who ante up the buck to facilitate the tooth faerie myth, since magic exists. That's the conceit put forward by one group of writers: the presumption that some stranger will break into homes to provide a service for those parting ways with their baby teeth. Another group of writers, however, ignorant to the movie's most fundamental rule(tooth faeries exist), have it both ways, in an incongruous scene where some father enacts the tooth faerie role, therefore relegating the whole profession back to the world of make-believe, because it's parents all along, who provide their offspring with magic.
